Why AI-Built Apps Break in Production — And What Spec-Driven Development Fixes
First 10 minutes: a first look at what we're launching this month. Before anyone else sees it.
Your AI shipped a screen. It never shipped a backend.
The UI looks finished and demos beautifully. Underneath it: no auth worth the name, secrets sitting in the client, CORS open to the world, one instance with no path to a second, unindexed queries that were fine at 50 rows and are not fine at 50,000, and no retries, rate limits or logs for the day it goes wrong. Every one of those is a thing the model was never asked about — so it never built it.
That's not a model limitation. It's a specification failure. The AI built exactly what it was told, one function at a time, with no picture of the whole system. This session is about giving it that picture.
What we cover
The security holes AI-generated code ships by default, and how to spec them out before the first line
What breaks first when real traffic arrives — and how to design for the second instance from day one
What a structured PRD changes about how the model reasons across a whole system, not one function
Live: code → PRD review, and an architecture review through PRD
How to vibe code fast without ending up somewhere you can't ship from
Open Q&A on your project
What you get
$1,000 in Codalio credits, total — record a short POC video of what you build after the session and submit it by Mon Oct 12. Ten builders get $100 each.
Codalio Blueprint — our open-source plugin, free, yours to keep
A Codalio Starter Account with credits
The resource pack — every registrant, no conditions
A place on the Codalio Studio alpha list
The recording, within 24 hours
Privileged tier — a few verified actions in the first 15 minutes unlocks it
Who it's for: developers shipping AI-assisted software at work, technical leads who inherited an AI-built codebase, and founders whose prototype got further than expected and now has to survive real users.
Free · Online · 90 minutes · Wed Sep 30, 7:00pm ET Earlier is better? The 12pm session covers the same ground from the career side.
Codalio's last public workshop ran at the University of Toronto's Schwartz Reisman Innovation Campus during Toronto Tech Week 2026 — around 80 attendees, over-subscribed.